We had them a few weeks ago - I don't mind if they're by the canal or in the fields but thee were running rigt past the back door - and breeding, well lke rats. Blue pellets seem to have done the job - but do make sure they aren't where dogs, cats or birds can get them because theya re lethal...

It was the Store, Duffy, the Quartermaster's Store - we used to sing it for hours on car journeys when I was a child, making up more and more horrible verses! My favourite used to be

There were bees, bees, wth kilts and hairy knees,
In the Store,
In the Store
There were bees, bees with kilts and hairy knees
In the Quartermaster's Store.

I can still imagine those bees! Funnily enough, when I tried to find a pic of a bee in a kilt on photobucket, there wasn't one- whyever not????